People are social creatures and the modern Internet reflects that. Technology has made collaboration at a distance possible in new ways that present their own set of challenges. This course will introduce you to the major challenges and opportunities for creating online communities. What does the future hold? Learn how social computing can create collaboration experiences that go beyond what’s possible face to face.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Connecting People through Technology
Challenges & Opportunities of Collaboration Online
Crowdsourcing
Reviews
- 5 stars61.03%
- 4 stars24.53%
- 3 stars10.60%
- 2 stars2.95%
- 1 star0.86%
TOP REVIEWS FROM SOCIAL COMPUTING
This was an excellent primer on how social collaboration and crowdsourcing works. Gave a good understanding of the concepts involved when creating such platforms.
Pretty good course. Although I'm not really sure how necessary it was to have it as part of this specialization.
My least favorite of the group so far as it spends a bit too much time on crowd sourcing and was missing the latest industry powerhouse topics like Slack.
Felt a bit light and not necessary, but it was good info still. Took pleasure in it and actually enjoyed the easy homework.
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